Actaeon Sound

Actaeon Sound (50˚57'00" 127˚06'00" N side of Drury Inlet, N of Port McNeill). Named by RN surveyor Lt Daniel Pender after HMS Actaeon, a 16-gun, 562-tonne frigate engaged in survey duties off the coast of China, 1856–62. William Blakeney, a member of Pender’s crew, had served on this vessel and suggested the name. The Actaeon was built in 1831, became a hospital ship in 1866 and was broken up in 1889. W

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